According to Casy, to earn a dollar at the Hooper ranch picking leaches at two-and-a-half cents a box, a picker would have to pick

According to Casy, to earn a dollar at the Hooper ranch picking leaches at two-and-a-half cents a box, a picker would have to pick

• A. A ton of peaches
• B. 500 pounds of peaches
• C. 750 pounds of peaches
• D. 1,000 pounds of peaches

Answer: (A)

This tests how wages are tied to a unit and how to convert dollars into quantity when you know the pay per unit. If you’re paid two-and-a-half cents per box, that’s $0.025 for each box. To earn $1, you’d need 1 ÷ 0.025 = 40 boxes. A standard peach box weighs about 50 pounds, so 40 boxes equal 40 × 50 = 2000 pounds, which is one ton. That’s why the correct amount is a ton of peaches. If you only picked 500, 750, or 1000 pounds, you’d be pulling in less than a dollar because those weights correspond to far fewer than 40 boxes at 50 pounds each.

This tests how wages are tied to a unit and how to convert dollars into quantity when you know the pay per unit. If you’re paid two-and-a-half cents per box, that’s $0.025 for each box. To earn $1, you’d need 1 ÷ 0.025 = 40 boxes. A standard peach box weighs about 50 pounds, so 40 boxes equal 40 × 50 = 2000 pounds, which is one ton. That’s why the correct amount is a ton of peaches. If you only picked 500, 750, or 1000 pounds, you’d be pulling in less than a dollar because those weights correspond to far fewer than 40 boxes at 50 pounds each.